52.8% ▲ +12.5%
Higher than 91% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 47.0%
- 2016: 44.7%
- 2021: 52.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Surfers Paradise · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Surfers Paradise
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over half of the people in Surfers Paradise have moved here in the last five years, making it a highly transient place to live. This constant churn of residents is driven by both domestic moves and a very high number of people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 52.8% of residents moved here within the last five years, which is far above the national figure of 40.7%. This proportion has risen by 5.9 percentage points since 2011, placing the area among the most mobile for similar locations.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 23.4% of the population, which is much higher than most areas. This is well above the Queensland figure of 13.7% and has grown by 5 percentage points over the last decade.
23.4% ▲ +27.3%
Higher than 89% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 18.4%
- 2016: 15.0%
- 2021: 23.4%
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Surfers Paradise [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30082/surfers-paradise/topic/mobility-location